Recommended masters & reading.
The teachers and texts that shaped Sifu Adam's path — offered here so you can drink from the same wells. No affiliation, no arrangement. Simply gratitude, and a pointing of the way.
Teachers worth seeking out.
Living teachers whose depth and integrity Sifu Adam trusts. If their work calls to you, study with them directly.
Master Steve Smith
Non-Classical Gung Fu & Red Boat Wing ChunTeaching for over 30 years at The Little Dojo in Seattle. Sifu Steve carries the Non-Classical Gung Fu and Red Boat Wing Chun lineage of Fook Yueng and Jesse Glover — Bruce Lee's first student — alongside his own Gung Fu and Heaven Mountain Qi Gong.
Visit The Little Dojo →Dr. Michael Smith
Medical Qi Gong & Traditional Chinese MedicineAn internationally respected TCM doctor, author, and professor — and one of Sifu Adam's principal teachers. Over 35 years studying with lineage masters of martial arts, Qi Gong, and Daoism, spanning Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Bagua, Hsing Yi, and Yi Quan. Founder of Soma Dao Qi Gong and co-founder of the Academy of Classical Oriental Sciences.
Visit Soma Dao Qi Gong →Texts to sit with slowly.
Books and teachings to return to again and again — not to accumulate knowledge, but to soften into understanding.
Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh)
A translation and study of one of the earliest texts of Taoist inner cultivation — breath, stillness, and the foundations of the non-doing practice.
Tao Te Ching
The root text of Taoist philosophy. The way of water, of yielding, of doing by not-doing. Read a single verse a day and let it work on you.
The Teachings of Anandamayi Ma
Words of the Bengali saint on surrender, bliss, and the natural state — a living pointing to the peace that needs nothing to arrive.
“Take what serves your practice. Leave the rest. The path is your own to walk.”
